Adverbials and Variations in Terminology
Adverbials and Variations in Terminology

Summary/Abstract: Adverbs may perform a variety of semantic and syntactic functions. They can provide a speaker’s comment on what is being said or, as it frequently happens, add information about the circumstances of an activity or state described in a clause. There is, however, ambivalence associated with the adverbial scope especially when adverbs freely move across the sentence. At times, grammarians adopt different positions in dealing with the terms ‘adverbial’ and ‘attribute’, the adverb as modifier or clause element. The terminology varies especially when the latter is concerned, some propounding instead of subjuncts, adjuncts, disjuncts, and conjuncts such explanatory terms as circumstance, stance, or linking adverbials.

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